Side view of the Vatican obelisk being lowered, 1590. Engraving in Della trasportatione dell’obelisco… (Rome: Appresso Domenico Basa). The...
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Image by zerochan, deviantArt By Dr. Amy Calvert (Egypt) and the British Museum (Greece and Rome)...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Jacob Deb) / 11.28.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University...
Winged deities kneeling beside a sacred tree (the Assyrian Tree of Life), from the Palace of Nimrud...
Photograph of Bronislaw Malinowski, circa 1920, shortly after his return to England from his first major ethnographic...
The triumphal arch of Septimius Severus in Rome, erected in 203 CE to commemorate victory over the Parthians. / Photo by Mark...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student J.P. Lehmer)Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington Introduction This...
Portrait of Marcel Proust painted by Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1892, when Proust was 21 years old. /...
Map of France showing the location of Lascaux By Mary Beth Looney / 11.19.2015 Acting Program Director...
Colosseum interior / Photo by LemonCrumpet, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Megan Anderson) / 12.02.2015...
Pantheon, Photo by Steve Heddin, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Kristina N. Low) / 09.28.2011...
Samadhi Mandir of Srila Prabhupada (back side) at ISKCON, Mayapur, West Bengal, India / Photo by Joydeep,...
Henry Wellcome with Sultans of Socota [Jebel Moya]. Photograph, 191? Wellcome Images reference: M0008634. By Carly Dakin...
Palette of King Narmer, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, c. 3000-2920 B.C.E., slate, 2′ 1″ high (Egyptian Museum,...
Çatalhöyük after the first excavations by James Mellaart and his team (photo: Omar hoftun, CC: BY-SA 3.0) By Dr....
Political reporter William D. Workman speaks at a GOP event in 1962. Courtesy of South Carolina Political Collections,...
Detail from a photograph taken by Mr Sims of Wallace when he was 30 years old, in...
Batty, Robert. Lisbon: The largo do Pelourinho. Pintado pelo Tenente Coronel Batty; gravura por Freebain. Londres: Moon Boys &...
Wilmington Giant (1939) by Eric Ravilious / The Mainstone Press Eric Ravilious died when his aircraft went missing off...
Roman acqueduct near Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain / Photo by Cruccone, Wikimedia Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student A. Maznamy)...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student J.C. Back) / 11.02.2015Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington...
A political leader who seeks to make his nation “great again” and a time when ‘post-truth’ rhetoric...
“We will lose much of the record of the last several thousand years of human occupation in...
Initial Q: David Before Saul (detail) from a psalter, after 1205, Master of the Ingeborg Psalter. Tempera colors...
One man’s quest to create a library of everything, 500 years before Google Books was conceived, foreshadowed...
From Khan Academy By Dr. Bryan Zygmont / 11.21.2015 Associate Professor of Art History Clarke University Venus of Willendorf,...
The first study to compare ancient and living female bones shows that women from early agricultural eras...
Women shipfitters working on board the USS Nereus at the U.S. Navy Yard in Mare Island, circa...
For the first time, human beings harnessed the power of atomic fission. Keith Ruffles, Creative Commons By Dr....
Making Irish coffee / Photo by Frettie, Wikimedia Commons The cavemen were drunk and revolutionaries were caffeinated....